Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance

Jeffrey B. Ferguson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2083-8 (ISBN)

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Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of’race melodrama' through the lens of which so much American cultural history and storytelling has been filtered, Jeffrey Ferguson's final work is brought together here in Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance.

Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing engagement with George Schuyler, culminating in his paradigm changing book The Sage of Sugar Hill. Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of “race melodrama” through the lens of which so much American cultural history and storytelling has been filtered, Ferguson’s final work is brought together here in Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance.

JEFFREY B. FERGUSON (1964-2018) was the Karen and Brian Conway Presidential Teaching Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts, a mythical teacher, and the author of The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler, Satire, and the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance: A Brief History with Documents, and an essay on Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt for A New Literary History of America. WERNER SOLLORS is the Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Research Professor of English and African American studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GEORGE B. HUTCHINSON is the Newton C. Farr professor of American culture in the department of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Foreword

1. Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance

2. Freedom, Equality, Race

3. A Blue Note on Black American Literary Criticism and the Blues

4. Of Mr. W. E. B. Du Bois and Others

Notes on Escape

Afterword

Editor's Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2021
Nachwort	George B. Hutchinson
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	3 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-9788-2083-6 / 1978820836
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2083-8 / 9781978820838
Zustand	Neuware